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assimilable

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Capable of being assimilated; susceptible to assimilation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, or, A Fabrick of Science Natural, London: Thomas Heath, Book 3, Chapter 15, Section 3, p. 381, [...] very deep and large wounds are many times soon healed of themselves; i. e. meerly by the goodness of Nature it self, which being vigorous, and of our own provision furnished with convenient means, wholesom and assimilable Blood, doth every moment freshly apply it to the part that hath suffered solution of Continuity, and thereby redintegrate the same:

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adjective satellite

Meaning 2

able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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History

Etymology

From Latin assimilabilis.

Across languages

Translations

4 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • French: assimilable — assimilable
  • German: assimilierbar — assimilable
  • German: integrierbar — assimilable
  • German: umsetzbar — assimilable